Trump ally: Clinton aide could be 'terrorist agent'

In the wake of Sunday's deadly terrorist shooting in Orlando, Donald Trump's longtime friend and informal adviser wants the presumptive Republican nominee to hit Hillary Clinton even harder, suggesting the former secretary of state's top aide Huma Abedin could be a "Saudi spy" or a "terrorist agent."

Only Trump, Roger Stone said on Sirius XM's "Breitbart News Daily," will be able to draw the necessary amount of attention to the theories, which have drawn significant blowback from Democrats and Republicans alike.

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“I also think that now that Islamic terrorism is going to be front and center, there’s going to be a new focus on whether this administration, the administration of Hillary Clinton at State was permeated at the highest levels by Saudi intelligence and others who are not loyal Americans," Stone said. "I speak specifically of Huma Abedin, the right-hand woman, now vice-chairman or co-chairman of vice—of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign."

Abedin was born in Michigan to an Indian father and a Pakistani mother. She moved with her family to Saudi Arabia at the age of two, and attended a British girls' school before returning to the United States for college.

Stone remarked upon reports from the likes of Breitbart, as well as Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Harper's that Abedin "has very troubling ties to a man who was directly tied to funding terrorism, Abdullah Omar Nasseef. Now I have a very hard-hitting piece coming up in Breitbart that lays this out chapter and verse," Stone said, teasing out an upcoming article. "It’s not just Huma. It’s her mother and her father who are, who are hardcore Islamic ideologues, her brothers—“

Stone's specific claims pertaining to Abedin have not been substantiated. The Atlantic referred to the Abedins' purported connections to the Muslim Brotherhood as “indeed a little nuts … That is, if you believe the excursions at all.” Harper’s, meanwhile, called another insinuation a “hard-to-credit rumor,” while Vanity Fair noted that the likes of Republican Sens. John McCain and Marco Rubio have condemned such conjecture.

When Abedin's family ties came under scrutiny in 2012 by House Republicans, McCain defended Clinton's top aide in a floor speech, calling her a "fine and decent American" facing “an unwarranted and unfounded attack."

“Put simply, Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully,” McCain said at the time. “I am proud to know Huma and to call her my friend.”

Stone on Monday claimed Abedin can be directly tied to two global charities directly financed by the Saudi government that were "in turn were being used by Bin Laden to finance his operations."

"So, and the Bush administration, I think, bent over backwards to expose none of this. That continued under Obama. She has a very troubling past. She comes out of nowhere. She seems to have an enormous amount of cash, even prior to the time that she goes to work for Hillary," Stone continued. "So we have to ask: Do we have a Saudi spy in our midst? Do we have a terrorist agent? I mean, I went back and checked this last night. Several media organizations, including The Atlantic report that it was she and Cheryl Mills who went through every one of Hillary’s emails to determine what should be preserved and what should be destroyed. That would mean, by definition, that she had access to top-secret documents. Who is this woman? Where did she come from? I think that is going to be a major, major issue. And what is her relationship with Hillary Clinton? I think that all gets adjudicated in this campaign.”

Stone later said he would "like to see Donald Trump ask a series of questions publicly about Huma and her relationship."

"I’m not talking about her personal relationship at this point. I’m talking about her political relationship and the fact that her family seems to be deeply tied to the Muslim World League, which is indisputably involved in terrorism in this country," Stone said. "The only way this is going to spill out into the mainstream media—even when Vanity Fair wrote an excellent piece on this—you know, the defenders of Hillary, the Media Matters for America crowd, who see no evil, hear no evil, et cetera, were immediately trying to distort and discredit that article, even though every word of it, I believe, was accurate. So Harper’s, Atlantic, several other mainstream media organizations have dared to print the story beyond Breitbart. But the only way it’s going to cross over into the mainstream, the only way people are going to focus on it is if Trump himself raises the question."